Desert Landscape
1951
Painter, American, 1912 - 1963
NGA, East Building, EU-407-B, E
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil and charcoal on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 61.3 x 106.7 cm (24 1/8 x 42 in.)
framed: 63.5 x 108.9 x 3.2 cm (25 x 42 7/8 x 1 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1996.81.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York); sold 1958 to Robert and Jane Meyerhoff, Phoenix, Maryland;[1] gift 1996 to NGA.
[1] Provenance from The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995, Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996: 237.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1952
Baziotes: New Paintings, Kootz Gallery, New York, 1952, no. 7.
1959
New Paintings and Sculpture from Established and Newly Formed Baltimore Collections, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1959.
1964
Selections from the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland, 1964.
1966
Selections from the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1966.
1973
Selections from the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1973.
1996
The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996, no. 7, color repro.
2000
William Baziotes: The Poetic Spirit, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, 2000-2001, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
2004
William Baziotes: Paintings and Drawings, 1934-1962, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 2004-2005, no. 27, repro.
2014
Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, 2014, pl. 17.
Bibliography
1996
The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996: no. 7.
Inscriptions
lower right: Baziotes; on reverse: DESERT LANDSCAPE / Wm. Baziotes
Wikidata ID
Q20194430